i think it's not a rip off at all, it's just a style, communist socialistic propaganda, Shepard Fairey used it, so many others did before ... in the end people wil say using a black & white photo is rip off because someone else did it before...

i guess they never saw shepard Fairey's work, and i see all the comments referencing his work, and yes he popularized the style and most people only no his work and not the early fifties propaganda posters. Regardless, shepard has clammed it as his style.